Syrian conflict. Children running. Smoke clouds in the background from shelling. Photo: AP.

It is war that deeply blasts this
dismal world: the whirl of raucous
noise attacks, seismic shocks in
the middle of nightmare, fall-out
flack in murder’s ghastly gore; furies
riding whacked-out ogre-egos.
Hosts of demonic specifics, including
horrific robotics of doom, in the booming
In the mushroom blooming, skeletal
spectrums of eternal, nihilistic rage.